ramsons
noun
ramsons is a noun meaning “A wild relative of chives, of species Allium ursinum, having edible leaves and roots” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-M-S-O-N-S, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ramsons mean?
noun
- 1
A wild relative of chives, of species Allium ursinum, having edible leaves and roots.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ramsons
- ramson singular
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ramsons?
Ramsons appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Ramsons in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Allium ursinum:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ail des ours |
| German | Bärlauch, Rams |
| Portuguese | alho selvagem, alho-dos-ursos |
| Spanish | ajo de oso |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does ramsons come from?
From Middle English ramsons, ramsens, rampsons, ramesones, ramsouns, plural of Middle English ramson, ramsen (“wild garlic”), reinterpreted as a singular form, from Old English hramsan, nominative plural of Old English hramsa (“wild garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *hramusō, from Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“onion; leek”), from Proto-Indo-European *kremus-, *kermus- (“wild garlic; onion”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).